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Erik Gfesser

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New Book Review: "Fast Data Architectures for Streaming Applications"

New book review for Fast Data Architectures for Streaming Applications: Getting Answers Now from Data Sets that Never End, by Dean Wampler PhD, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: A brief 40-page read that walks the reader through an introduction to the concepts of streaming, event logs and message queues,

Personal Reading List: 3Q2018

My personal reading list for July, August, and September 2018. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change, by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, and Patrick Kua, O'Reilly, 2017. Copy provided by O'Reilly. Designing Event-Driven Systems:

New Book Review: "Designing Data-Intensive Applications"

New book review for Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems, by Martin Kleppmann, O'Reilly, 2017, reposted here: Kleppmann mentioned during his "Turning the Database Inside Out with Apache Samza" talk at Strange Loop 2014 (see my notes) that he was

Media Query Source: Part 12 - Connected Futures (Cisco blog); 5 classic blunders of digital transformation

* Connected Futures (Cisco blog) * Classic digital transformation blunders * Only viewing success in light of original vision * Taking on too much at once! My responses ended up being included in an article at Connected Futures, Cisco's executive insights magazine (September 5, 2018), entitled "5 Classic Blunders of Digital

Personal Reading List: 2Q2018

My personal reading list for April, May, and June 2018. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change, by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, and Patrick Kua, O'Reilly, 2017. Copy provided by O'Reilly. Designing Data-Intensive Applications:

New Book Review: "Gradle Essentials"

New book review for Gradle Essentials, by Kunal Dabir and Abhinandan, Packt Publishing, 2015, reposted here: The only relatively recently published (circa early-2018) text on mastering Gradle fundamentals. Although I have been a long-time Apache Maven user, I admittedly resisted a move to Gradle a few years ago when some

From the Trenches: Technology Radar Volume #17

Introduction The title of this post is influenced by a 2012 post of mine which went into detail discussing a suite of commercial products that I had used on a project at that time, with the tagline "from the trenches" to emphasize that my writing was from personal

Media Query Source: Part 11

The responses I provided to a media outlet on February 8, 2018: Media: Why are microservices becoming so popular with large brands like Netflix? Are they the future of app building? Are smaller companies seeing the same benefits? Do microservices bring the same benefits to small scale projects with small

Media Query Source: Part 10

The responses I provided to a media outlet on January 30, 2018: Media: What is likely to happen with open source in the coming years? This coming week we'll be celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Open Source, which is officially celebrated on February 3rd. It has come a

New Book Review: "Spring Boot Messaging"

New book review for Spring Boot Messaging: Messaging APIs for Enterprise and Integration Solutions, by Felipe Gutierrez, Apress, 2017, reposted here: When I first ran across this text, I debated whether it would make sense to acquire a copy for a recent client project of mine. As a relatively early